The editors of ZDM Mathematics Education are aware that the significant disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic means that many researchers have difficulty in accessing academic journals, which is usually tied to institutional availability and not easily accessible from home offices. This creates another barrier to research work in addition to that generated by the disruption associated with COVID-19. Springer is therefore providing one month open access to specific special issues of ZDM Mathematics Education whose themes specifically connect to discussions related to COVID-19.

From September 3 to September 30, 2020 the two special issues, described below, will be released for free access. Please make use of the opportunity and spread the news. Please also take care and stay healthy.

Volume 51.3.: Identity in mathematical education

Volume 52.5: Online mathematics education and e-learning

Free Access to Volume 52.5: Online mathematics education and e-learning, addressing three main themes in online and blended learning: principles of design, social interaction and construction of knowledge, and how the use of online tools and resources is conceptualised in different mathematics teaching contexts.

Free access to volume 51.3: Identity in mathematical education, contributing new areas or foci of research, bringing new perspectives to mathematics identity research and novel methodologies...

51(1) Whole number arithmetic and its teaching and learning
Eds.: Xuhua Sun, Hamsa Venkat, Jarmila Novotna, Rongjin Huang

51(2) Material ecologies of teaching and learning
Eds.: Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, Lulu Healy

51(3) Identity in Mathematical Education
Eds.: Mellony Graven, Einat Heyd- Metzuyanim

51(4) Metacognition in mathematics education
Ed.: Annemie Desoete

51(5) Mathematical Evidence and Argument
Eds.: Andrew Aberdein, Christine Knipping, Maria Alessandra Mariotti
51(6) 21st Century Skills and STEM Teaching and Learning
Eds.: Katja Maaß, Michiel Doorman, Vince Geiger, Merrilyn Goos
51(7) Research on Teaching and Learning in Linear Algebra
Eds.: Sepideh Stewart, Christine Andrews- Larson, Michelle Zandieh

Issues in 2020

52(1) Mathematical word problem solving: Psychological and educational perspectives
Eds.: Lieven Verschaffel, Stanislaw Schukajlow, Jon Star, Wim Van Dooren

52 (2) Expertise in developing students' expertise in mathematics  
Eds.: Fien Depaepe, Lieven Verschaffel and Jon Star

52 (3) Numeracy and vulnerability in adult life  
Eds.: Iddo Gal, Anke Grotlüschen and Gabriele Kaiser

52(4) Research on Early Childhood Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Eds.: Camilla Björklund, Angelika Kullberg, Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen

52(5) Online mathematics education and e-learning
Eds.: Johann Engelbrecht, Salvador Llinares, Marcelo Borba

52(6) The Role of Mathematicians’ Practice in Mathematics Education Research
Eds.: Keith Weber, Paul Dawkins

52(7) Teaching with Digital Technology
Eds.: Alison Clark-Wilson, Ornella Robutti, Mike Thomas

Issues in 2021

53(1) Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Exploring and Expanding the Terrain
Eds.: Jaguthsing Dindyal, Edna O. Schack, Ban Heng Choy, Miriam G. Sherin

53(2) Designing and enacting teaching that supports language in mathematics classrooms
Eds.: Susanne Prediger, Kirstin Erath, Jenni Ingram and Judit Moschkovich

53(3) Calculus in High School and College Around the World
Eds.: Patrick Thompson and Guershon Harel

53(4) Empirical Research on Mathematical Problem Solving and Problem Posing around the World
Eds.: Peter Liljedahl, Jinfa Cai
53(5) Implementation and implementability of mathematics educations research 
Eds.: Boris Koichu, Mario Sánchez Aguilar, Morten Misfeldt
53(6) Mathematics Textbooks as Instruments for Change"
Eds.: Sebastian Rezat, Lianghuo Fan and Birgit Pepin

53(7) Eastern European Mathematics Education in the Decades of Change
Eds.: Alexander Karp

Issues in 2022
54 (1) Mathematical Creativity – State-of-the-art of Empirical Research
Eds.: Roza Leikin, Bharath Sriraman